A floor lamp, Cadmo freatures a steel panel which screens and releases a soft indirect light upwards together with a diffused light along the vertical aperture of the lamp. A combination of halogen light sources, for indirect and diffused emission, with seperate switching. The body of the lamp is steel with exterior in black lacquer or white powder coated finish and interior in white powder coated finish. The weighted metal base is mirrored stainless steel and there is a on/off and dimmer control (uplight only) on the cord for independant operation of each of the two light sources. Available in your choice of black/white or white/white and come with an aluminum interior shield.

Karim Rashid was born in Cairo, Egypt; Half-English, half Egyptian and raised mostly in Canada. He received a Bachelor of Industrial Design in 1982 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He pursued graduate design studies in Naples, Italy, with Ettore Sottsass and others, then moved to Milan for one year at the Rodolfo Bonetto Studio. He opened his own practice in New York City in 1993.